Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Quotes

I am no expert on tax; I'm a film producer. I read books and think about which ones would make good movies, and then I work with directors in order to make them.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I love making movies.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.

I love having made a movie.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].